Hello,
I thought this may be of interest to members of the SPF discuss lists.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/3691196
Spam: You've Come a Long Way, Baby
July 27, 2007
By Ray Everett-Church
Ray Everett-Church According to the majority of the testimony at this
month’s “Spam
Summit,” held by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the state of the
fight against
spam is pretty much the same as it has been for the last several years.
The two days of presentations can largely be boiled down to the following
bullets:
• Spam volumes continue to increase, being driven by the growth of “botnets”
– networks of
hijacked computers run by hackers and rented out to spammers.
• Spam is one of many high-tech tools being used by organized crime,
international
terrorist organizations, and can be expected to play a major role in future
conflicts
between nations.
• Anti-spam technologies are improving, but deployment of sophisticated
technologies such
as cryptographic-based email authentication is sorely lacking.
Oh, and the spam wars are a lot less exciting than they used to be. Case in
point: unlike
last time, there were no fist-fights at this year’s shindig.
...continued....
See link above for more
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Boyd Gerber <gerberb(_at_)zenez(_dot_)com>
ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047
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